Mathematician Movies

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against...

Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to satnavs and credit card data...

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to...

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known...

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for the feature film A Beautiful Mind —...

The salutary tale of a genius mathematician who discovers that mankind is heading for environmental disaster. Ignored by all, he sets out to prove it...

This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois...

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem features a heroine driven by the quest to solve one of the central problems of modern mathematics. She...

Ten years ago, Tetsuya Miyamoto had a dream to change the world through puzzles. In his classroom in Yokohama, KenKen was born. Enter a world where...

Documentary about an African-American girl who grows up to help NASA put astronauts into space and bring them home safely. She was one of the main...

As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and pattern where others could not. But his path...

Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten- year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with...

A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

The story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s and dreamt of pursuing math.